We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEChristianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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